In just over 150 pages, Physics of the Piano manages to deliver remarkable depth for a text aimed at a broad audience—anyone who is interested in understanding how and why the piano was invented, how it evolved, and how different parts of the instrument contribute to the sound it produces. Like many of us musical-acoustics researchers, author Nicholas J. Giordano Sr—the Hubert James Distinguished Professor of Physics at Purdue University—came to the field rather late. But since his arrival, he has made significant contributions as evidenced by a number of his publications in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and invited presentations at that society's conferences.
Giordano offers in-depth discussions of fundamental physics principles relevant to music production, amplification, and propagation. In doing so, he follows in the tradition of Neville Fletcher and Thomas Rossing in The Physics of Musical Instruments (Springer, 1998) and Jürgen Meyer in Acoustics...
